OPI The Nutcracker and Four Realms Collection in Tinker Thinker Winker ($11) ...

Tucked into the Bavarian-esque town of Leavenworth, Wash., at the foothills of the Cascade mountains is a two-story jewel of whimsy and, some might say, obsession. It's the Leavenworth Nutcracker ...

When it comes to nutcrackers, June Kreutzkampf is no purist. Her nutcrackers don”t have to be made in Germany and they don”t have to be expensive. But they do have to be made of wood and a real ...

Nutcracker dolls go on display in many American homes each Christmas, then they get packed away. But it’s a holiday wonderland year-round in the house of Hayden resident C.J. Davis, who keeps her ...

Thanks to Tchaikovsky and his holiday sugar plum of a ballet, “The Nutcracker” — the little doll with jaws like iron and a soldier’s bearing — has become a Christmas decoration mainstay. For Sandra ...

For most people, Christmas nutcrackers—the kind that look like little men—call to mind sugarplum fairies and first trips to the ballet. I think of my mother. She's not otherwise given over to kitsch ...

Visitors to Luverne in the southwest corner of Minnesota will encounter a new star-spangled sight looming over the prairie: a 65-foot-tall nutcracker that could be the tallest in the world. Workers ...